How Much Wealth is Available?

Materialistic people often think not only of matter, but of energy, too, as a limited quantity. The truth is, however, that the more you use your energy, the more you’ll find that you generate energy. So many people think, “But I’ve got to save my strength.” They are wrong.

Yes, of course we need rest, periodically. Yes, of course we mustn’t overdo; we’d be foolish to drive ourselves to the point where our will power shuts off, for with unwillingness our energy supply shuts off, too. But remember: Energy used joyfully and willingly doesn’t exhaust energy; it generates more energy.

If, then, you want to earn money, approach it as a focal point for your energy-flow, and use it to help you generate a greater flow of energy. Remember, money is only a symbol of energy. Approach it as energy. And remember the principle, “The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.” There need be no limits to your flow of abundance. The only limits will be those you place on that flow yourself, by the self-erected fence of emotional attachment.

A person who receives from God the blessing of great wealth, but spends it only on himself, will sooner or later find his wealth being removed from him, or its supply drying up. Whatever we are given in this world, whether money, popularity, or talent, should be taken as an opportunity for service. We were not put here on earth merely to live for ourselves. We were given the blessing of a human body that we might enter into a greater awareness of all life.

The desire for equality with others is a delusion; we are equal only in the fact that we are all children of God. Life, otherwise, is like a ladder.

The lower animals are helped upward in their evolution by association with human beings.

Relatively unaware people are helped upward by serving those who are more highly evolved. The caste system in India originally recognized these realities: It wasn’t hereditary, and was never intended to be suppressive. It simply indicated the right direction for humanity to develop—from body-bound (kayastha) to freedom from ego-bondage.

“One moment in the company of a saint,” it has been said, “will be your raft over the ocean of delusion.” The company of persons more highly evolved than oneself can be uplifting. In the case of the devotee who seeks God, saints are the best company. And best of all is it to be guided by a true guru.